On 2013/02/14 09:23, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 25/01/13 22:48, jdow wrote:
>> On 2013/01/25 13:31, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>> On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, jdow wrote:
>>>> To a degree I can sympathize with the elrepo people. Nvidia has
>>>> screwed up.
>>>
>>> This is not the first time nvidia cards have gone 'legacy'. There are
>>> now three supported legacy nvidia driver versions (304.xx, 173.xx, and
>>> 96.xx). Prior to 310.xx, there were but two.
>>>
>>>> After getting disgusted with ATI I abandoned them for Nvidia. Now
>>>> maybe I
>>>> need to figure out how good the support for Intel cards is these days.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, good luck with that.
>>>
>>>> But, still, the gentlemen at elrepo could have handled this a little
>>>> more
>>>> gracefully, methinks. It's a shame they're stuck in the middle here.
>>>> They
>>>> seem to be basically very good folks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> They handled it as gracefully as it could have been handled, since the
>>> heads-up was posted on the elrepo list quite a while ago. I do think
>>> that if one uses third party packages, one should follow at least the
>>> announcement lists for each such repo.
>>
>> It seems there should have been some way to cozen yum into sending the
>> administrator email regarding the process that needs to be taken. Better
>> yet would be a test for cards gone legacy. This could be added to the
>> install for a 304.65 driver update that is basically the same as 304.64
>> with the addition of a test program.
>>
>
> Firstly, apologies for reviving an old thread...
>
> We have released a utility called nvidia-detect which will detect supported
> NVIDIA graphics cards and determine which driver to use. See here:
>
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2013-February/001652.html
>
> You can install it from the elrepo repository with:
>
> yum install nvidia-detect
>
>> In the post processing the test program is run.
>>
>
> It is my intention to call nvidia-detect from the %post install script and echo
> a warning to the console should one attempt to install/update to a driver
> version not supported by the detected hardware.
>
>> At best that test program should setup a sequence of yum steps to remove
>> the newly installed 305 drivers and install the 304xx legacy drivers.
>
> Unfortunately due to the way RPM / Yum works, we can't stop you breaking your
> system but we can warn you that you are about to break it and tell you how to
> fix it.
>

That is better than breaking video and leaving the user with no clues.

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